Work samples

  • this book will not save you

    Selected poems from this book will not save you (dogleech books, 2024)

    Available for Purchase
  • journal of various worries

    Selected pieces from journal of various worries (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2026)

  • with gasoline

    Selected pieces from with gasoline (kith books, 2025)

  • camera indomita

    Selected pieces from camera indomita (self-published, 2024)

    Available for Purchase

About Nat

nat raum (they/them, b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore, MD. They graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018 with a BFA in Photography and Book Arts and also hold an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from The University of Baltimore, where they also served as managing editor of both the school’s literary journal, Welter, and student-run press, Plork Press. nat… more

journal of various worries

Straddling the line between poetry and prose, this collection mixes the vignetted style of Bluets with the nonlinear narrative structure of (500) Days of Summer to explore themes of queerness, disability, trauma, and anticapitalism. The collection will release in October 2026 with Gnashing Teeth Publishing.

  • journal of various worries

    Selected pieces from journal of various worries (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2026)

fruits of the valley

fruits of the valley is a complex love letter to the city of Baltimore, where I was born, raised, and currently live. The collection dives deep into childhood, drawing upon memory as much as media and painting a portrait of youth surrounded by family and video games before a wobbly slide into queer adulthood. This book will release with Querencia Press in 2026.

  • fruits of the valley

    Selected poems from fruits of the valley (Querencia Press, 2026)

  • fruits of the valley cover
    fruits of the valley cover

    Cover of fruits of the valley (Querencia Press, 2026), designed by the author

april, buttersoft

april, buttersoft is a poetry microchapbook written during the 2025 Aurelie30 challenge. It was published in November 2025 by Whittle Micro-Press.

  • april, buttersoft

    april, buttersoft (Whittle Micro-Press, 2025)

    Available for Purchase
  • april, buttersoft cover
    april, buttersoft cover

    Cover of april, buttersoft (Whittle Micro-Press, 2025), designed by Kate Netwal

with gasoline

with gasoline defiantly carves out a space for trans anger in an increasingly hostile world, where trans people often have to conform to a sanitized image of a polite, pliable, and otherwise "perfect" trans person to be accepted by society—if they are accepted at all. This poetry chapbook released with kith books in August 2025.

  • with gasoline

    Selected poems from with gasoline (kith books, 2025)

    Available for Purchase
  • with gasoline cover
    with gasoline cover

    Cover of with gasoline (kith books, 2025), designed by the author

this book will not save you

this book will not save you explores intersections of alcoholism, institutionalization, queerness, and borderline personality disorder. The book’s first section delves heavily into the experience of institutionalization, asking essential questions about healing and trauma. The second flashes back to the experience of alcoholism and untreated borderline personality disorder, providing context as to the events that led to the first section’s hospitalization. The third section, written from the present perspective, explores manifestations of queerness and joy as ongoing acts of healing. This full-length poetry collection released with dogleech books in November 2024

  • this book will not save you

    Selected poems from this book will not save you (dogleech books, 2024)

    Available for Purchase
  • this book will not save you cover
    this book will not save you cover

    Cover of this book will not save you (dogleech books, 2024), designed by the author

camera indomita

The poems in camera indomita explore queerness, borderline personality disorder, alcoholism, and trauma through the framework of photography and coming of age in an art school environment. This self-published book was created as part of the author's MFA thesis.

  • camera indomita

    Selected poems from camera indomita (self-published, 2024)

    Available for Purchase
  • camera indomita cover
    camera indomita cover

    Cover of camera indomita (2024), designed by the author

specter dust

This poetry chapbook began as an exploration of objects as agents for memory, examining my relationships with late and other former loved ones through the things they left behind. Bite-size poems heavily inspired by Witcher game lore explore grief and trauma from the perspective of a specter looking to depart the world of the living in peace. This title released with Bullshit Lit in July 2022.

  • specter dust

    Selected poems from specter dust (Bullshit Lit, 2022)

    Available for Purchase
  • specter dust cover
    specter dust cover

    Cover of specter dust (Bullshit Lit, 2022), designed by Veronica Bennett

you stupid slut

you stupid slut is a hybrid memoir that started as an ode to my carefree early 20s and slowly turned into a reckoning with who the fuck I thought I was. Diving deep into a pool of memories from (loosely) 2014-2019 that I had (almost entirely) tried to forget about, I grapple with the role that my own reckless behavior played in the immense amount of harm this period of my life caused me. It's about reckoning with a loss of faith in love and humanity, but also so much about the ways I so desperately needed to prove I was lovable—as well as the gender confusion created by indulging in a pattern of self-destructive hypersexuality and substance abuse, both of which were born as coping mechanisms for unresolved emotional trauma. you stupid slut functions as an unrated version of my previous work in eventually i will learn to stop saying sorry, recollecting my destructively performative femininity through poetry, prose, form experiments, scraps of paper I probably shouldn’t have saved, and forgotten disposable camera snapshots. This hybrid memoir will rerelease with Bullshit Lit in 2026.

  • you stupid slut

    Selected pieces from you stupid slut (dream boy book club, 2022/Bullshit Lit, 2026)

  • you stupid slut cover
    you stupid slut cover

    Cover of you stupid slut (dream boy book club, 2022), designed by the author

Selected works

Selected published poems

  • Selected work

    Selected previously published poems